News of author

Mario Vargas Llosa: Peruvian Nobel-winning novelist

13-04-2025 23:25 As one of Latin America’s foremost writers and intellectuals, Mario Vargas Llosa defended individual liberty, democracy and the free market, which often put him at odds with his peers and political leaders in the region.

LITERARY LEGEND DIES

Mario Vargas Llosa, Latin American literary heavyweight, dies at 89

13-04-2025 23:15 Mario Vargas Llosa has died in Lima at the age of 89, confirms family; Nobel literature laureate is considered to be one of the greats of Latin America's literary "boom" of the 1960s and 1970s.

LITERATURE

‘Ageing scares the young’ – Pacho O’Donnell on the ‘new old age’

17-09-2024 15:02 Author, historian and thinker brings his best-selling book ‘La nueva vejez’ onto the stage this Sunday (September 22) in a show featuring singer Magdalena León and guitarist Samy Mielgo. In an interview, the 82-year-old reflects about what he has learnt about being elderly and the “new old age.”

by Juan Manuel Dominguez

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Claudia Piñeiro: ‘I’ve never ever seen another president celebrate the tears of a rival’

15-06-2024 05:49 Award-winning writer, playwright and screenwriter Claudia Piñeiro on narrative, challenges to women’s rights and President Javier Milei’s rhetoric.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

OBITUARY

Maud Daverio de Cox, author indelibly linked to dictatorship era, dies at 92

01-12-2023 11:38 Author Maud Daverio de Cox, the wife of former 'Buenos Aires Herald' editor Robert Cox who helped expose abuses perpetrated by 1976-1983 military dictatorship, passes away aged 92.

by James Grainger

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Carlos Pagni: 'If I talk to Peter and not to Paul, that would bore me.'

15-07-2023 06:18 Carlos Pagni, Argentina’s most influential journalist, on the legacy of the 2001 crisis, talking to both sides and why he’d rather untie than cut knots.

News of author

Mario Vargas Llosa: Peruvian Nobel-winning novelist

Mario Vargas Llosa, Latin American literary heavyweight, dies at 89

‘Ageing scares the young’ – Pacho O’Donnell on the ‘new old age’

Claudia Piñeiro: ‘I’ve never ever seen another president celebrate the tears of a rival’

Maud Daverio de Cox, author indelibly linked to dictatorship era, dies at 92

Carlos Pagni: 'If I talk to Peter and not to Paul, that would bore me.'

Argentina must turn over 51% stake in YPF, US judge rules

Argentina's economy grew more than expected after Milei lifted controls

Milei makes waves by taking his dog Conan to interview

INDEC statistics body reveals how many dollars Argentines have stashed away

Labour court strikes down Milei decree restricting right to strike

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Tras la detención de una concejal en Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza cargó contra Espert: "Sos un verdadero cagón"

Tragedia de Devoto: quiénes son las víctimas fallecidas por inhalar monóxido de carbono

En medio de la crisis por el Garrahan, el gobierno cambió el sistema de residencias médicas y eliminó un beneficio clave

Milei denunció a otros cuatro periodistas por calumnias e injurias